Justin, servers alive does report status to a web page, so that may be the easiest way to see if your exchange servers are alive.
I understand the problem, you want to receive Email to your mailbox if a server is down, BUT if its the exchange server you cant get any mail. The problem is that if the exchange server is down, an SMTP script isnt going to do anything if the intended destination for the message is your exchange server, the message just cant get there. There are some command line smtp mailer (like blat), that you can use with SAlive to shoot messages directly at any SMTP server. The only options I can think of at the moment are: 1. set up a freee mailbox on one of the service providers (hotmail etc), and get alerts sent there (servers alive can just shoot all SMTP status messages direct to the internet SMTP server - so doesn't matter if exchange is down). Not a big fan of this as your internal status messages get shot to the internet. 2. set up an internal SMTP + POP3 server that receives these messages (again, wont matter if exchange is down), but means you will need a second account to read these messages (like a second mailbox profile in outlook, or something like outlook express). 3. use an SMTP -> SMS gateway and shoot the status messages to your mobile phone (again, just shoot the status message directly to the internet, and it will route it to the SMS gateway). 4. Use ServersAlive "net send" option and send a broadcast message to your NT Account. 5. if you have a seperate gateway exchange server (one that just handles MTA traffic), create / move a mailbox onto that so it can receive the status messages. This way, you will get alerts if the mailbox server is down for the organisation, but you still wont get messages if the gateway server is down (and would need to implement something like one of the other suggestions) We do something similar to 5, however we have 8 exchange servers. Our scripts know which servers are down, and send messages to the mailboxes located on those servers that are still running, and have a monitoring service that is logged into all of these mailboxes at the same time. So we are ok until ALL exchange servers go down (which hasnt happened yet *touch wood*) Glenn ----- Original Message ----- From: "Salandra, Justin A." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 11:40 PM Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Server Monitoring > I want to check exchange servers and file servers to see if the server > itself is up or down and then get notified. Monitoring the file servers > works great with servers alive, but if the exchange server is down then I > won't get a page. > > All my users send mail via the exchange server. No one uses any other type > of SMTP mail and we do not rely on the ISP for anything but connectivity. > > Does anyone have a SMTP script that I might be able to use to send > notifications if the mail server is down? > > Justin A. Salandra, MCSE > Senior Network Engineer > Catholic Healthcare System > 212.752.7300 - office > 917.455.0110 - cell > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Glenn Corbett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 7:47 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] OT: Server Monitoring > > MOM is probably a bit of overkill for something that simple (although thats > what I use) > > Justin, the products you've looked at should be able to do it, you just need > to set up some alternative SMTP routing if the email server is down. Can > you send SMTP mail directly upstream to your ISP from another machine, or > only from the email server ? > > What exactly are you trying to check ? > Is it an exhcange server and you want to check individual stores / > connections ? > do you just want to check an smtp server ? > > G. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Rod Trent" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 8:06 AM > Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Server Monitoring > > > > Try MOM. > > > > http://www.microsoft.com/mom > > > > When the email server is down, you can use scripts to send email via SMTP. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Salandra, Justin > A. > > Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 4:35 PM > > To: ActiveDir (E-mail) > > Subject: [ActiveDir] OT: Server Monitoring > > > > Mmy company is currently looking for a product that will monitor if the > > e-mail server and other servers are up or down and then notify me by > > e-mailing my cell phone. > > > > Question 1) What software do you use? 2) How do you get notified by > e-mail > > if your e-mail server is down? > > > > Any help is appreciated, I have already looked at Whats Up Gold and > Servers > > Alive. > > > > Justin A. 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